Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Death of a Name: Mildred, Bertha & Todd

What’s in a name…that makes it popular to one generation, and downright ugly to the next? From "Bertha" and "Layla" to "Reagan" and "Katrina," history shows us that politics, pop songs and news events all play roles in sending baby names skyrocketing or plunging in the rankings. Mo (short for "Maurice"!) returns to his elementary school to speak with his fifth grade teacher about his own name then talks to Columbia University linguist John McWhorter and actor Todd Bridges about other names that have seen better days. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Sitcom Deaths and Disappearances | Reviving a Mobit

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  Literary Frontierswoman: Laura Ingalls Wilder

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  LaWanda Page: Death of a Comedy Queen

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  Revisiting the Orphan Train: An American Odyssey

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  Death of a Sports Team: Satchel Paige and Los Dragones

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  Death of the Very Special Episode

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  Mobits Extra: How Norman Lear Changed Television

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  The Habsburg Jaw: Death of a Dynasty

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  Death of a Nepo Baby

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  JFK Impersonator Vaughn Meader: Death of a Career

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  Charlie McCarthy: Death of a Dummy

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  Things I Wish Would Die

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  Death of an Accent

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  Jim Thorpe: Death of an All-American

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  Peggy Lee: Death of Cool

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  Died on the Same Day (with special guest Anderson Cooper)